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Heinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson), 1907-1988.

Farmer in the sky / Robert A. Heinlein.

Riverdale, NY : Baen Publishing Enterprises ; New York : Distributed by Simon & Schuster, 2008, ©1977.

290 pages ; 17 cm

A youth and his father emigrate from the mechanical and organized world on overpopulated Earth to become colonists on Ganymede, the third moon of Jupiter.

Heinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson), 1907-1988. Farmer in the sky -- Criticism and interpretation.

Space colonies -- Fiction.

Fathers and sons -- Fiction.

Scouting (Youth activity) -- Fiction.

Farm life -- Fiction.

Science fiction, American.

Bildungsromans.

Science fiction.

Woosley, Jim. Terraforming Ganymede.

Heinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson), 1907-1988. Puppet masters. Selections.

Published, in condensed form, in Boy's life magazine under title: Satellite scout.

Includes an "Afterword"; Terraforming Ganymede: science and technology in Robert A. Heinlein's Farmer in the sky, by Dr. Jim Woosley, c2008.

Includes excerpt from The puppet masters.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / William H. Patterson -- Farmer in the sky / Robert A. Heinlein: Earth -- The green-eyed monster -- Space ship Bifrost -- Captain DeLongPre -- Captain Harkness -- E=MC² -- Scouting in space -- Trouble -- The moons of Jupiter -- The promised land -- "Share croppers" -- Bees and zeroes -- Johnny Appleseed -- Land of my own -- Why did we come? -- Line up -- Disaster --Pioneer party -- The other people -- Home -- Afterword: Terraforming Ganymede: science and technology in Robert A. Heinlein's Farmer in the sky / Jim Woosley.

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